Sentences with phrase «for forced labour»

However, the most prominent form of slavery — at any rate in Britain — is the widespread scourge of trafficking of women across national borders for sexual exploitation or for forced labour.

Marco was arrested for being «too Catholic», and Natalia volunteered to go with a group of women rounded up for forced labour; both died in concentration camps.

Not exact matches

There does not seem to be any obvious economic reasons for large job and labour - force losses that would be isolated to these five cities.

Kitchener - Cambridge - Waterloo had a record setting month for both job loss (6,200) and persons leaving the labour force (5,000).

The data, collected on a survey basis, includes estimates on the number of employed persons and the size of the labour force (which is roughly equal to the number of employed persons plus persons without jobs but actively looking for work).

Over the years, you've been a vocal advocate for getting Canadians to address various business challenges, including the need to go global and the skills gap affecting the labour force.

He'd like to increase military spending, sign free trade deals with other Asian countries, make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers, change immigration laws, get more women in the labour force and much more.

Employment rates ages 15 - 65 % of unemployed in civilian labour force (figures for Iceland, Mexico, Sweden and Turkey were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of unemployed in long - term unemployed category

A recent study by the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship found that up to 42 % of the Canadian labour force is at high risk of being affected by automation in the next 10 - 20 years.

Labour force participation rates (the proportion already working or actively looking for work) for young Canadians have fallen since the recession, and unemployment rates are higher for youth than for older workers.

«Today, gen X and gen Y dads want to be involved,» says Spinks, adding, «Boomer grandmas, who would have historically provided the postpartum care for mom and new baby, are still in the paid labour force.

New entrants to the labour force, new graduates, and other young Nova Scotians, account for a disproportionate share of this exodus.

Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Quebec and the federal government (for areas of federal labour - force jurisdiction) are at various stages of rolling out PRPPs.

It also notes that according to a Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey, from July 2008 to July 2013, the net increase in new jobs for university graduates was 810,000, while the available jobs for those with no post-secondary education decreased by 540,000 during the same period.

You might recall Fed Vice-Chair Janet Yellen discussing at length the numerous pitfalls of the headline unemployment rate, which doesn't count the discouraged workers who've dropped out of the labour force, those who've stopped looking for work but say they would still like to have a job, and those who would like to work full - time but could only find part - time employment.

Unemployment, measured in a different survey, edged down to 7.7 % from 7.9 % in January and, for once, not just because more Americans gave up the job search: 170,000 said they had found employment, meaning those who dropped out of the labour force were less than half the total.

Canada received high marks for its high - quality labour force and its immigration system that has historically attracted skilled and industrious workers.»

But after establishing his headquarters in the GTA, Jain realized the region has another significant asset for a company whose customers are located all over the world: its ethnically diverse labour force.

For wage growth, the bank said despite recent improvements it remains below what would be expected if the economy no longer had slack in its labour force.

Thomas market in April because its labour force — those available and looking for work — has shrunk by 6,600 over the past two months.

«Immigrants who've integrated and adapted would seem tailor made for the Canadian labour force.»

Before March, the London area had been showing a steady increase in both its labour force and the number of people employed for five months.

Instead, the downtick in the headline employment number is due to job seekers becoming so discouraged that they stop looking for work and drop out of the labour force measurement all together.

Yussuff and one of the other task force members, Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan, were at the centre of the effort to secure McKenna's commitment to set up the task force and ensure financial support for laid - off coal miners, after the minister led the formation of the Powering Past Coal Alliance during last year's UN climate change conference in Bonn.

The Labour Force Survey for August showed that average hourly wages were up by just 1.4 % from a year earlier, the same low level of increase as was registered in July. Consumer price inflation was 2.7 % in July, a bit down from 3.1 % in June and 3.7 % in May, but it seems that we have -LSB-...]

We can build the labour force that is needed now and prepare for the one needed in the future.

That means the next Statistics Canada snapshot of the labour force — September employment figures are slated for release on Oct. 7 — will be very closely watched.

The comparative advantage sweet - spot for Canada's rust belt is the combination of a high - skilled labour force, significant quality controls and a low cost of living.

For these reasons the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Statistics Canada base their calculations on surveys: the Current Population Survey in the United States and its Canadian counterpart, The Labour Force Survey, are conducted monthly and use a sample of between 50,000 and 60,000 households to represent the working age population in each country, those 15 years of age and older.

In 1960, 24 per cent of the labour force was engaged in manufacturing — good - paying jobs, with benefits, even for those without a college education.

«If mom was a lawyer and dropped out of the labour force for four or five years, the family gave up the opportunity cost of maybe $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 a year in order to bring that child to a point where he could enter the education system,» says Ward.

For example, faster labour force growth will encourage firms to invest not only to meet greater demand but also to equip these additional workers with machines and other capital to raise their productivity.5 The rate of technological progress is also a key factor, since a faster pace of innovation raises the return on each additional unit of capital, stimulating firms to invest more.

For example, to calculate what portion of the Canada-U.S. gap in income per capita is due to Canada's lower labour productivity, we substitute U.S. labour productivity into the equation but keep Canadian data for the other four components (hours worked, unemployment, labour force participation, and demographic structurFor example, to calculate what portion of the Canada-U.S. gap in income per capita is due to Canada's lower labour productivity, we substitute U.S. labour productivity into the equation but keep Canadian data for the other four components (hours worked, unemployment, labour force participation, and demographic structurfor the other four components (hours worked, unemployment, labour force participation, and demographic structure).

Therefore, demographic forces that affect the growth of the labour force will also affect the demand for capital.

In Canada and the United States, for example, the annual growth rate of the labour force slowed from around 1 1/4 per cent in 2006 to less than 1/2 per cent in 2016.11 This decline has reduced potential output growth and investment demand.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

Some labour force data is available for workers who self - identify as aboriginal (off - reserve only), and workers with landed immigrant status.

These regions are defined in terms of the ABS's Statistical Areas Level 4 (SA4s), which are geographic boundaries defined for the Labour Force Survey.

Interpretation of the monthly figures in recent months has been complicated by the effects of changes in interviewing procedures for the Labour Force Survey.

In the Council's pre-budget submission to this committee we urged the government to boost Canadian productivity by increasing female labour force participation, supporting women in STEM, enabling seniors to work for longer and helping Canadians navigate the changing job market.

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«Small - scale mining is the second biggest global employer, and many of those mines force their workers to labour long hours in dirty and dangerous conditions for a pittance, whilst we enjoy the high value, glittering jewellery made using their gold.»

Set in the future, humanity's genetic engineering technology allows for a slave labour force of «replicants» indistinguishable from humans.

Even if Labour gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of principle will hold out.

The example of St Thomas More, Bedford, is a chilling one, for the Department «for» Children, Schools and Families presented it as the exemplar of what all Catholic schools will now be forced to become if Labour has its way.

Global CEOs on the Board of The Consumer Goods Forum continue their efforts in tackling forced labour by adopting and calling for action on «Priority Industry Principles»: Every worker should...

The steady supply of milk in Twin Falls, a skilled labour force, and a strong local community were among the reasons for choosing the location.

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How will you respond to changes in per capita consumption, population size, labour force productivity and share of renewables in the energy mix for example?

Office for National Statistics, Focus on Families 2005, Table 1.2, based on Spring 2004 data from the Labour Force Survey